BIOLOGIST

Theobald Smith

1859 - 1934

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Theobald Smith FRS(For) HFRSE (July 31, 1859 – December 10, 1934) was a pioneering epidemiologist, bacteriologist, pathologist and professor. Smith is widely considered to be America's first internationally-significant medical research scientist. Smith's research work included the study of babesiosis (originally known as Texas cattle fever) and the more-general epidemiology of cattle diseases caused by tick borne diseases. He also described the bacterium Salmonella enterica (formerly called Salmonella choleraesuis), a species of Salmonella, named for the Bureau of Animal Industry chief Daniel E. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theobald Smith has received more than 83,997 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Theobald Smith is the 886th most popular biologist (down from 696th in 2019), the 8,451st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,631st in 2019) and the 124th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Theobald Smith ranks 886 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann August Ephraim Goeze, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Sam Harris, Benjamin Smith Barton, Gaetano Savi, and Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw. After him are Robert Weinberg, Dukinfield Henry Scott, Richard Evans Schultes, David Goodall, Charles Frédéric Girard, and Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Theobald Smith ranks 125. Before him are Nathaniel Lord Britton, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., Vincenzo Cerulli, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anatole Le Braz, and Alfredo Baquerizo. After him are Cass Gilbert, Victor Herbert, Jón Magnússon, Sigurd Ibsen, José Sánchez-Guerra y Martínez, and Juan Antonio Escurra. Among people deceased in 1934, Theobald Smith ranks 147. Before him are Broncia Koller-Pinell, Heinz Prüfer, José Santos Chocano, Claudio Williman, William H. Welch, and Ferenc Móra. After him are Dukinfield Henry Scott, Walther von Dyck, Cass Gilbert, Hélène Boucher, Leonid Sobinov, and Arthur Surridge Hunt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Theobald Smith ranks 8,451 out of 20,380. Before him are Judy Tyler (1932), Phillip Rhee (1960), Cliff Bourland (1921), Judith Krantz (1928), Willie Steele (1923), and William Bradford (1755). After him are Alex Raymond (1909), Tim Keller (1950), Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829), King Kong Bundy (1955), Julia Morgan (1872), and Jeremy Piven (1965).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Theobald Smith ranks 124. Before him are Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858), Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Charles Horton Peck (1833), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Sam Harris (1967), and Benjamin Smith Barton (1766). After him are Robert Weinberg (1942), Richard Evans Schultes (1915), Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), Thomas Say (1787), Sereno Watson (1826), and Ruth Patrick (1907).

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